Elle, you sound extremely complicated and yet surprisingly shallow all at the same time... this is neither interesting nor desired in a mate. Makes for someone who tends to complicate things and doesn't have the ability to figure out how and why the complications occurred.
I'm not a guy, but I've dated females before... the moment you opened your mouth with "I want this in a person..." I will have lost interest, side-stepped, and probably initiated a conversation with the girl next to you... regardless of whether I had a legit interest in her or not. It would drive the message home to you (hopefully) that I'm not interested in your 'high-maintenance' demands.
Men (or other people in general) are not here to serve you... and from your posts you seem to honestly believe they are.
There will be work from BOTH in the dating game... not just the male. If you want certain qualities in a person, you might have to actually put forth some effort of your own to find them rather than nagging about how they 'aren't doing it right' for you. And as for tradition... well.. **** tradition...
Last edited by Aeradalia; 07-02-09 at 01:51 AM.
"The weakest soul, knowing its own weakness, and believing this truth that strength can only be developed by effort and practice, will, thus believing, at once begin to exert itself, and, adding effort to effort, patience to patience, and strength to strength, will never cease to develop, and will at last grow divinely strong."
- James Allen